12 THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. lyoi. xxy. No. 28s. 



Stem erect, ramose, pubescent. Leaves petiolate, elliptical 

 in outline, light green, adpressed-pubescent beneath, obtuse or 

 subcordate at the base, few-pinnatiparted with sinuses of 

 rounded bottom ; lobes elliptical, inciso-serrate. Heads clus- 

 tered at the top of the stem and branches, shortly peduncled ; 

 peduncle often curved after anthesis, 2J-3cm. across. Involucre 

 short-campanulate, about 7-9mm. across, 8mm. long ; scales 

 puberulent, the basal ones shorter, linear or subulato-linear, 

 viridescent, the inner ones oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, viridescent 

 and herbaceous in centre but broadly darkish-membranceous on 

 margins. Receptacle ovato-globose. Ray-flowers sub- 



numerous and about 15 in number, patent ; lignle white, linear- 

 oblong, minutely tridentate at the apex, shortly attenuated 

 below, about 11mm. long, 3mm. broad ; tube broad-linear, 

 ■compressed, ycllowish-viridescent. Disk-flowers numerous, 



yellow, about ^Jmm. long; corolla 3mm. long; tube yellowivsh; 

 throat campanulate, shorter than the tube ; lobes v), acute. 

 Anthers slightly exserted, yellow. Style cxserted, yellowish ; 

 arms patent-recurved, broad-linear, truncate. Ovary minute, 

 obovoid, angulate, white, 1mm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Shirohana-ahuragiku (no v.). 



Hah. Prov. Musashi : Tokyo [T. Makino ! Nov. 1910). 



A form raised in garden ; possibly a hybrid with some 

 white-flowered form of Chrysanthemum sinense Sabine. 



Centipeda minima (Linn.) O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL L 

 (1891), p. 320. 



Artemisia minima Linn. Sp. PI. (1753), p. 84-9 ; Richt. Cod. 

 (1840), n. 6146; Houtt. Nat. Hist. XXVUL (1779), p. 589, et 

 Linn. Pfl.-Syst. IX. (1783), p. 290 ; Thunb. Fl. Jap. (1784), p. 

 311. 



Cotula minima Willd. Sp. PI. III. (1800), p. 2170 ; Pers. 

 Syn. PI. IT. (1807), p. 464 ; Blume, Bijdr. p. 919 (1826). 



Grangea minima Poir. Encycl. Meth. Bot. Suppl. II. (1811), 

 p. 825. 



Grangea minuta Poir. Encycl. Meth. Bot. Suppl. II. (1811), 

 p. 825. 



